How was it to be a student in the 70's? ? - Report on HDR Student Survey, MUSEQ-R 2007 Executive Summary HDRC - hzgn.com

great
we did not have all that peer pressure as the kids have today.
nobody cared about designer clothes or shoes, cell phones and I pods.
just good old fun ( maybe smoke a little pot and drink some beer ).
never got me in trouble !!!!!

There was more depth to students, even in the high schools. People rallied and demonstrated against racism and Viet Nam, we cared enough about the soldiers to write them, we walked the walk and bumper stickers meant something.

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The curriculum was not as structured which in the long run was not to most of the students advantage. The bummer was no one was looking at 5 year or 10 year plans and many never saw the necessity of a 4 year college education. The "Don't trust anyone over thirty" was bogus and did us a disservice, but there were teachers that took time and effort into our success, they had careers not just obligatory jobs.
There was seldom a time when you heard "Good Enough", people took pride in doing things right because it was the right thing to do, not because someone was breathing down their necks.

It was fun. We had great music, great stereos, cheap gas and beautiful fast cars. We didn't have computers, internet, CDs/DVDs, cell phones, satellite TV and radios with hundreds of channels - we had typewriters, maybe basic calculators, vinyl records, 8-tracks (yuk!) regular phones, maybe cable with 10-15 channels and AM radio. If we had to research a subject, we went to the library or simply read our textbooks. You couldn't take your calculators to class - you had to know how to do the steps of the equations. Grading was tougher. Vietnam ended and so did the draft. We didn't have to worry about global warming, terrorists or energy. AIDS wasn't a worry. It was a much more innocent time.

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I went to an experimental high school. We called it an experiment that failed.

Instead of two semesters, we had four cycles. So it was possible that I was on a break when my friends were taking midterms. It was not a year round school and each cycle lasted about 12 weeks. Instead of periods, we had blocks - long blocks and short blocks. The blocks were alphabetical, so on Monday, you could a long block for A and a short block for B and the next day, it would be reversed. It was rough when I got to college and had to take a class for an entire semester, complete with midterms and papers and finals.

You got to choose your classes and it was fine, as long as you met the basic requirements. It was entirely possible to never take any really heavy classes, though I went out of my way to take classes in Shakespeare and literature and lots of social studies classes and electives. Once I was done with math and science, I was done and I padded my schedule with extra social studies electives.

It was the 70's and rather free form. Sometimes I wish I had gone to a normal school where I could take normal classes.

Other than that, we had our share of potheads and future junkies. I graduated before disco, so our look was more grunge - overalls and workshirts and those hideous Earth shoes.

I don't miss those days and I realized that the only reason I ended up with a well rounded education was because I took the harder classes and lucked out with an amazing English teacher who obviously saw something in me that I didn't. She pushed me and I went for it.

IT was tough. The grade scale was different: 95-100=A, 90-94=B, 80-89=C, 75-79=D, 74 BELOW =F. That sounds pretty bad but the test are 10 questions. Miss one =B, 2=C, 3 you fail. To add to all that every question was hard. There were no easy questions. Then, Integration came. Practically every question was easy. Before I had to study at night and on weekends just to have a B average. Then all the sudden I didn't take a book home at all and had an A average in everything. I even graduated a year early in High School. We also had girls getting cut in the face with razor blades, and guys with knives.